Worst accidental insult you've had?

[ImJustMadAboutSaffron]

I'm massively busy just now and on the train yesterday I was going through everything in my head, sort of a planning conversation with myself. A woman opposite asked if I was ok and when I asked why she said I was nodding my head a lot. Clearly answering myself in my head! We laughed about it and a woman across the aisle said "when you get to our age you start talking to yourself." I asked what her age was and she said 64.

I'm 42.

My 4 year old niece, upon finding out that I lived alone...'oh, does nobody love you?'

Had a lovely age-appropriate chat to reassure her that I absolutely love living alone! 😂

An elderly lady used to say hello every morning as I passed her house. One day she said ‘you always look lovely my dear… but I’m almost totally blind now, so you could look horrible, I’ll never know’
i was a bit 😱

Radiographer taking my 6 year olds X-ray asked “is it mum or is it nana?”

Fuck off.

( I was 49 but was very insulted!)

DH once told me “you’re not pregnant, you’re fat” when I was complaining about how big I had gotten during pregnancy 😆

“Congratulations, when are you due?”

I had my baby 18 months ago, I’m just a bit fat.

“ My mate asked me if I’d met anyone since breaking it off with xxx. I told him about you, I said she’s not much to look at but shes got a cracking personality”
Said to me by a now ex.

Someone was talking about a 60th birthday and I mentioned that 'mine was coming up' (meaning my birthday not my 60th).

'Oh, you don't look 60!'

I should hope not as I'm not even 50 yet 😞

when I was a teenager, I was helping out in a day camp and on the last day we did one of those things where everyone writes a very short compliment about each other. One of mine read... very helful!!
Written by, I think, a 7/8 year old who had difficulty spelling. She meant well....

To be fair, that was fairly misleading...

We still laugh about a waiter saying ot my friend "have you got ID" and when she took her mask off he was like "OMG, OMG, I'm so SORRY, OMG, it was the mask, I'm SO SORRY!!" as if she was 94. She's 31.

A child said to me at work "I can't believe you're 30!!! I thought you were WAY older!!" think she meant it as a compliment as she is the age they want to be older but I wasn't thrilled!

Said by autistic ds ‘you look lovely, you know for you’

Said by a drumming teacher ‘have you done this before? Do you dance?’ No and No. ‘you’re really picking it up well’ <me smug preen> ‘older people usually struggle’ ….

’you’re not blessed with height are you?’

I need to change my username now as loads of people know these

My mother has lost quite a bit of weight. A mutual friend was complimenting her then turned to me and said: “we could do with taking a leaf out of her book, couldn’t we?” Gee, thanks.

She's saying you look younger than her and can pull off clothes she can't.

This made me actually laugh out loud, and I never lol. I'm using nappy changer for all my insult needs now.

Having dinner with my now DH family , only 3rd time I’d met them . MIL says “you don’t eat much for such a big girl “ 😳

Yes, it was my fault, I just wish it had been obvious I didn't mean 60 ...😅

Aw, it was, judging by the shocked response 😀

This is hilarious

Years ago when I lived in London I used to use the same petrol garage all the time. The guy serving had worked at the garage for years and got to know him very well. I used to go in and say, Hi Bob. How are you, etc. He sometimes seemed stressed and one day I was in a rush and went in to pay my fuel. I wasn't taking any notice and could hear Bob moaning about something to another customer. When it was my turn I went up to the counter and was getting the money out of my purse and before I looked up. I said, you sound stressed, like you are pulling your hair out. When I looked up he had clumps of bald patches all over his head. I was mortified. He said he has alopecia and was stressing to the last customer about it. I felt awful but thankfully he took it in good spirits. He used to wear a cap but in the end he shaved his head and looked great.

I’ve had congratulations on your pregnancy as well which was slightly awkward as I’d not long miscarried so I presumed she knew that I had been pregnant but turns out she didn’t and just thought I looked pregnant.

Also had ‘at our age’ comments from a well meaning but often tactless friend who is 10 years older than me. And just had a happy birthday how are you feeling entering a new decade when I’m 44!

Yes, I had a blind colleague and we support the same team so I'd often ask him if he watched the match on television. He knew what I meant, he'd listen to it of course but everyone said that to him and he didn't mind.

'You've got good skin... from a distance'. Beautician at my first and last facial.

'You're really fun to be around, not like I thought at all'. Err, thanks.

😂

My daughter's boyfriend is an amputee (leg)
Telling him to 'jog on' is not good....

I was running the lucky dip at the village fete. A man and a woman and a 4 year old child came up. The child, and then the mother, had a go. The sun was shining, it was all very jolly. The man looked about 30 years older than her. I had been a primary school teacher for years. I knew very well that families come in all shapes and sexes and ages and sizes. But my mouth still went " Would grandad like a go now ?" even as my brain was screaming noooooooooo that's the dad. They were very good about it. I wanted the ground to swallow me whole. Total brain fart.